The International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Emu protocol should be voted the legal deal of 1998. It allows counterparties that have existing deals on Isda standard terms to adopt new provisions to cope with the euro. The trick was to get the market to agree.
“It was crisis management,” says Jeffrey Golden, a partner at Allen & Overy. “Although there had been a lot of discussion about the effects of the euro, we weren’t able to take practical action until the decision in May 1998 over which countries would be in or out.
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